If either Oracle or Sun had truly understood what it was they were trying to provide when they ventured out with the network computer concept, we might already be dealing with a whole different desktop experience -- and a new set of vendors to provide it.
The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.
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In computer science, the concept of computers built into everything is called ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, ambient intelligence or, my favorite label: everyware.
He writes actual letters, physical objects that can be stolen by someone who does not know how to hack a computer, a novel concept in 2013.
The law is just beginning to gets its arms around the concept of computer hacking, but in a way that Granick says errs on the side of extreme punishment for crimes when considered in context are not often that serious.
Jobs also pushed the very concept of a computer into the future with the iPad.
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At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.
They may not even have a concept of a simple computer, let alone Google Glasses.
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In the near future the concept of a personal computer may be radically different than it is today.
For decades, the concept of a personal computer remained relatively unchanged, but the rate of change in technology is too quick now.
Have you studied computer science enough to know that the concept of cross-compilation of code has existed for decades?
There's nothing wrong with the slider concept, but I doubt many people would use a computer this thick and heavy as a tablet for very long.
Americans have trouble getting used to the concept that medicine progresses at a far slower rate than the computer industry.
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Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics founder and former director of the MIT Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he hoped Baxter represented a "new concept in manufacturing".
Age is one factor, says Wendy Moncur, a computer technology and human behavior expert at the University of Aberdeen who has been researching the digital afterlife concept.
Founded by computer scientist and Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, tech startup Udacity has built an entire business model around the concept of free education in math, science and technology.
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Yet despite their failures, the concept of network computing resonated and validated the Windows terminal, which has the advantages of a network computer and runs Windows applications.
In what appears to be an early proof-of-concept for DNA computing, scientists at Columbia University and the University of New Mexico have created a basic computer, called the MAYA-II, which has a molecular array of YES and AND logic gates made up of 100 DNA circuits.
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